Sabri Ciftci

Happy to share this article. Four years in making, a true labor of love, Unruly Mystics and the State is out in Studies in Comparative International Development

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This graph from @economist.com reveals a major pivot in #economics toward data and empirical work, with theory and modeling taking a back seat. The underlying data is open source at www.causal.claims

🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com

Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study

Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read:

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*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students.
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

Know someone who's made an impressive contribution to the field of R&P? The deadline for nominations for the SHR Outstanding Scholar Award has been extended until April 30, 2025. Check out our Call for Nominations for the award description and instructions. connect.apsanet.org/s11/call-for...

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

#TurkishPolitics folks at @mpsa.bsky.social join us in 15 minutes at Clark 5 on 7th floor for the roundtable on Turkish politics featuring A. Carkoglu, @pelinamus.bsky.social Z. Sarigil, M. Wuthrich and yours truly @drciftci.bsky.social

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Announcement that 34 members of Congress are demanding answers from DHS, ICE, and the State Department on the arrests of Rumeysa Ozturk and several other students, seemingly for their political views.

New — 34 members of Congress are demanding answers from DHS, ICE, and the State Department on the arrests of Rumeysa Ozturk and several other students, seemingly for their political views.

"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers

This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Time to update this post. It looks like the bird site has totally lost coherence and I hope this place will help carry academic exchanges/good conversation.

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter (Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. Specifically, we created 80 human-like bot accounts that claim to be Ph...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Israeli forces surround Palestinian hospital and refugee camp in West Bank Israel defence minister calls Jenin siege ‘shift in … security strategy’, as Palestinian Red Crescent says ambulances cannot reach dead and wounded

No consequences were applied when Israel first first missiles at Gazan hospitals, nor when the first hospital massacre was perpetrated, nor after for killing hundreds of medical workers.

Now the same tactics are being deployed in the West Bank.

Utterly amoral conduct.

I have been here for two months and this place looks like The NY Times of social media. Despite all criticism, Musk’s place is still my “to go”choice for academic news as well as info on Palestine. Weeding out misinformation is not hard on the bird site and I am ok to sometimes feel uncomfortable.

Opinion | Sanctifying the indiscriminate killing in Gaza is Israel's second defeat ***

“A society that sanctifies indiscriminate death and killing loses its moral superiority and the justification for its existence. This is the second massive blow that Hamas is on the way to landing on us, and it is even more terrible than the first.” - Uri Misgav

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...

Up to 1,000 children had their limbs amputated without anesthesia during the aggression on the Gaza Strip. - UNICEF

Read that twice

"The evidence shows that Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict, destroying more buildings, in far less time, than were destroyed during the Syrian regime’s battle for Aleppo 2013-2016"

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking...

HRW: Israel using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime it isn’t even trying to hide.

www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...

New PCPSR poll of West Bank and Gaza: rising support for Hamas, further decline for PA (90% want Abu Mazen to resign), rising support for armed struggle in the WB, little support for PA or Arab role in Gaza, most blame Israel/US and not Hamas for the situation.

pcpsr.org/en/node/961

There Can Be No Critique - Boston Review Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.

Judith Butler: “The crisis of academic freedom we are currently facing is as acute as any since the McCarthy years in the United States.”

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack An analysis of shell fragments shows Israel used U.S.-made white phosphorus munitions in an attack that a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime.

Exclusive: Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.

A twitter retweet of me saying "Refaat was one of my followers. If I write again, it must be for you." and his poem "If I Must Die, Let it be a Tale."

He was a professor of comparative literature and creative writing. They killed him, his sister, and her four children.

This is indeed a widespread trend beyond the MENA scholars.

Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated “No child should have to die alone,” a charity said in response to a widely shared TV report that has sent shockwaves on social media.

I will never forget or forgive this.

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...

Most of these people were already refugees. Now the so called evacuation orders cover all of Gaza.

Birth and Death Intertwined in Gaza Strip On November 9, Israeli airstrikes hit Al-Nasr Medical Center in Gaza City, cutting off the neonatal intensive care unit’s oxygen supply. The attack forced staff to evacuate the next day, leaving bab...

Israel’s war on Gaza has been unending horrors and devastation, but it’s hard to get past the largely uncovered forced abandonment and death of five premature babies at Al-Nasr Hospital. HRW spared you the soul-searing pictures which were all over social media.

www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...